VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 516 570
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 +186
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 57 57 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.51% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 50
10th Percentile £413 £450 £354
25th Percentile £509 £503 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +8.87%
75th Percentile £650 £574 £563
90th Percentile £663 £688 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £538 £488
% change year-on-year +16.28% +10.26% +6.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,344 11,188 13,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.40% 29.26% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,455 6,894 9,010
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £707 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 654 726
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.44
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% -9.08% +20.98%
75th Percentile £45.00 £68.00 £69.91
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £51.90
% change year-on-year -52.10% +1.16% +16.21%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +26 50 £600 +14.29% 25
UK excluding London -3 39 £625 +16.28% 21
South East +19 18 £650 +20.93% 7
South West +14 12 £605 +13.88%
Work from Home +9 11 £481 -9.20% 13
London +23 10 £485 +7.78% 9
North of England - 5 £500 - 7
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 3
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -
North West - 2 - - 3
East of England +3 1 £563 +151.68%
West Midlands -11 1 £365 -48.77%
Midlands -12 1 £365 -48.77% 6

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.02%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) Azure
2 5 (8.77%) PaaS
2 5 (8.77%) SaaS
3 3 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (5.26%) IaaS
4 2 (3.51%) AWS
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.51%) Serverless
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.75%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.75%) Route 53
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) iSCSI
2 11 (19.30%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (15.79%) VSAN
4 5 (8.77%) DNS
4 5 (8.77%) PBX
4 5 (8.77%) VoIP
5 3 (5.26%) DHCP
5 3 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (3.51%) PCoIP
6 2 (3.51%) WAN
7 1 (1.75%) Firewall
7 1 (1.75%) LAN
7 1 (1.75%) Skype
7 1 (1.75%) VLAN
7 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) JIRA
3 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (3.51%) Local Government
4 2 (3.51%) Military
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) French Language
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Architect
2 13 (22.81%) VMware Architect
3 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Architect
4 11 (19.30%) VMware Engineer
5 10 (17.54%) Consultant
6 9 (15.79%) VMware Consultant
7 7 (12.28%) VMware Specialist
8 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Principal Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) PowerShell Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Test Engineer
10 1 (1.75%) AWS Architect
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Consultant
10 1 (1.75%) Cloud Consultant
10 1 (1.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 1 (1.75%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.75%) Kafka
1 1 (1.75%) REST
1 1 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Blackberry
1 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
1 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (8.77%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (5.26%) PKI
3 2 (3.51%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.82%) Windows
2 13 (22.81%) Windows Server
3 11 (19.30%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (12.28%) Linux
5 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.75%) SUSE
7 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (19.30%) Performance Analysis
3 10 (17.54%) Edge Virtualization
4 9 (15.79%) Migration
5 8 (14.04%) Agile
6 7 (12.28%) Validation
7 6 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (8.77%) Commercial Awareness
8 5 (8.77%) Configuration Management
8 5 (8.77%) Cost Reduction
8 5 (8.77%) Impact Assessments
8 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.77%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (8.77%) Roadmaps
8 5 (8.77%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (8.77%) Service Design
8 5 (8.77%) Thought Leadership
9 4 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) PowerShell
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 14 (24.56%) SQL
3 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.75%) Bash
4 1 (1.75%) Java
4 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (70.18%) Security Cleared
2 22 (38.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 18 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (22.81%) MCSE
6 11 (19.30%) VCP5
6 11 (19.30%) VCP6
7 9 (15.79%) CCNP
7 9 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (14.04%) VCAP
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
10 3 (5.26%) VCDX
11 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
11 2 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (3.51%) MCSA
12 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (1.75%) MCP
12 1 (1.75%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.51%) GDPR
1 2 (3.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (49.12%) vSphere
3 16 (28.07%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (21.05%) VMware NSX
5 11 (19.30%) NFS
6 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
7 2 (3.51%) Docker
7 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) vRealize
2 7 (12.28%) Ansible
2 7 (12.28%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) vCenter Server
3 6 (10.53%) PowerCLI
4 4 (7.02%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
6 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 13 (22.81%) Veeam
4 12 (21.05%) NetApp
5 11 (19.30%) Splunk
6 8 (14.04%) Cisco
7 7 (12.28%) F5
8 5 (8.77%) Avaya
8 5 (8.77%) Ericsson
8 5 (8.77%) Juniper
8 5 (8.77%) Nokia
8 5 (8.77%) Palo Alto
8 5 (8.77%) Ribbon
9 2 (3.51%) Broadcom
9 2 (3.51%) Oracle
9 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.75%) Dell
10 1 (1.75%) Isilon